<quote who="Scott Ragen">

> I'm not a solicitor or anything, but isn't it a basic right to be able to
> reverse engineer a product as long as you do not infringe patents and such
> - with the idea to increase competition and reduce monopoly markets?

It's not a "basic right", but it is quite legal in Australia. At least so
far.

- Jeff

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